Bibbe Hansen, born in New York City,
1953, to Fluxus artist Al
Hansen and actress Audrey
Hansen, began performing professionally at age eleven playing
leading child and
ingenue roles in prestigious east coast summer stock companies. In New
York City, concurrently, she regularly performed in her father's
avant-garde theater pieces called "Happenings" and
participated in the presentations of his contemporaries at such
historical venues as La Mama, Circle in the Square and Judson Church.
She studied dance with Phoebe Neville and Lucinda Childs, sang in an
Elizabethan music group and was filmed by underground cinema champion
Jonas
Mekas.

A chance meeting with a record
producer at age 13, led to her recording a single for Laurie records
with her friends Janet Kerouac (daughter of Jack) and Charlotte
Rosenthal. They were called
"The
Whippets" and their hastily recorded single hit the pop
charts in Canada.

After a stint as a delinquent street
kid, runaway and truant she became a "guest" of the State of
New York at the infamous Spofford Street Youth House and several other
NY institutions for child criminals where she was able to refine her
survival skills and work on her freestyle group dancing techniques.

Directly following her release, Bibbe
met Andy Warhol who suggested they collaborate on a film about her
recent experiences. The film was called Prison and stars Bibbe Hansen,
Marie Mencken and Edie Sedgwick. Bibbe also made three other films with
Warhol and danced briefly with the Velvet Underground.

A random late-60's sojourn brought
Bibbe to Los Angeles where she founded a theater company, acted in "B"
movies and participated in the local punk scene as musician, and
documenteur. She is the mother of three wonderful children, Beck,
Channing and
Rain; a pop musician, fine artist and poet respectively. From 1990 -1995
she operated Troy
Cafe. The café became the center of a multicultural
renaissance in downtown Los Angeles and was home to a generation of
musicians, comedians, artists and filmmakers.

Following the death of Al Hansen in
1995, Bibbe and husband Sean Carrillo created the Al Hansen Archive, and
continued exhibitions of her father's work, while performing and
lecturing at museums, galleries and universities around the world.

Today Bibbe creates artwork and is
represented by
Gracie
Mansion Gallery in New York City. She recently completed the first
draft of her memoirs and she lectures frequently on art and the creative
process.